Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only player to make it to the final table in three of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may recall one of the largest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen won a huge pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the strongest players around the world. While competing in internet poker, a different side of Hansen has been seen. Gus frequently plays in the 200/400 NL max buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus generally buys-in for the minimum of $16, 000 and plays very weak. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then pushes all-in. I believe Hansen is a great poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the table with the minimum buy in.
Playing for the min takes almost all of the ability out of deep stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be one of the best poker players in the world but he can’t buy in for the full amount. I think tv can skew our view of the real world every now and then. The greatest players in the world might be players you have won’t have heard of. Gus can be seen gambling on online poker on Full Tilt. He commonly competes in big stakes omaha hold’em and Holdem. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a competition player. Can he back up his abilities in money games?
